Too smart for cancer research: Chinese duo invents Flappy Bird-playing robot

Chances are you’ve tried your hand at Flappy Bird, the insanely popular, maddeningly difficult, and recently unavailable mobile game that hasn’t made people talk this much about birds doing things on their smartphone screens since that other game with birds in it. You know, the angry one. And chances are, you suck at it. 

Well, two developers in China, Liu Yang and Shi Xuekun, probably couldn’t get past 3 pipes either, so they put together a prototype robot to do their Flappy Bird screen-tapping for them. Look, long story short: it plays Flappy Bird better than you. Way better:

 

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